This makes sense.
In view of the many comments, it seems the Bundy Ranch and the public land Bundy uses for grazing cattle has severe legal issues and profits not limited to the oil leases sold at auction.
There is the Harry Reid/China Solar Company that wants to create another solar hot spot in Clark County, NV. This was news in 2012. There is already one that gets to 1000 degrees and burns birds, who fly over, and damages the very tortoise the BLM claims they are protecting and were already destroying.
Nevada Law says that Bundy would lose his water rights within six years if he is no longer using them, and that’s tied to the property and land use of his ranch and public land.
When it’s all said and done it looks like BLM will make lots of money from these options, and including Senator Harry Reid and family.
This is the beginning of ranch takeovers in the west for federal financial gain, and not as much about unpaid grazing rights as people think. Bundy maintained the public lands when BLM quit 20 yrs ago, evidently he could not get the county to take payment from him and BLM wanted to buy his ranch....that should count for something, but I guess not when billions of donations for democrats is at stake.
Solendra and other companies borrowed billions, donated billions politically, then closed their doors in Bankruptcy. Is this going to be the pattern now with taxpayer dollars? I would just as soon pay Bundy’s grazing rights so beef can be produced, since the drought is supposed to make beef and other meat go up 30%.
Dont’ forget in CA the farmers cannot grow food for the USA due to water irrigation being stopped due to FEdS protecting some minnow, and that is going to create vegetable/fruit shortages soon. Higher prices.
The Feds are only supposed to be managers of our land paid for by taxpayer dollars, the FEDS don’t have any money of their own, it’s ours, so how can they own the land in question? So if the ranchers can not graze the cattle, then we, the owners lose due to higher prices.